By Russia Today | Created at 2025-01-16 19:55:34 | Updated at 2025-01-16 23:52:07
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The US secretary of state has allowed “the Holocaust of our time,” Max Blumenthal said, before being removed
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal has unleashed a torrent of criticism at US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the Israeli war on Gaza that Washington did nothing to stop for 15 months.
Blinken appeared at the last State Department briefing of the Biden presidency, just days before President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be sworn in, to claim the past four years have seen successful diplomacy.
In particular, the departing secretary of state described the Israel-Gaza ceasefire as something the current administration proposed in May 2024, although most who were involved in the talks credited Trump’s intervention.
”Why did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May?” Blumenthal can be heard saying at one point. “We all knew we had a deal. Everyone in this room knows we had a deal, Tony, and you kept the bombs flowing.”
“Why did you sacrifice the rules-based order on the mantle of your commitment to Zionism?” Blumenthal continued. “Why did you allow my friends to be massacred? Why did you allow my friends’ homes in Gaza to be destroyed when we had a deal in May?”
Blumenthal accused Blinken of helping “destroy our religion, Judaism, by associating it with fascism” and pointed out that the secretary of state’s father-in-law and grandfather were lobbyists for Israel.
“Why did you allow the Holocaust of our time to happen? How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide?” Blumenthal could be heard saying as security removed him from the briefing room.
As State Department spokesman Matt Miller approached, Blumenthal told him he “smirked through the whole thing every day. You smirked through genocide!”
Blumenthal posted the one-minute video of the altercation on X, calling Blinken the “Secretary of Genocide.”
The Biden administration continued delivering financial and military aid to Israel throughout the 15-month war on Hamas in Gaza, which claimed an estimated 46,000 lives in the Palestinian enclave. The US also condemned South Africa for having accused Israel of genocide before the International Court of Justice.
